We Shall Not Appease
The gauntlet has been thrown down. To appease or not to appease.
ap‧pease –verb (used with object), -peased, -peas‧ing.
1. to bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment; pacify; soothe: to appease an angry king.
2. to satisfy, allay, or relieve; assuage: The fruit appeased his hunger.
3. to yield or concede to the belligerent demands of (a nation, group, person, etc.) in a conciliatory effort, sometimes at the expense of justice or other principles.
Donald Rumsfeld, as primary belligerent, has confused the issue once again.
Take a look at this link http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/07/DDGK1KT87E1.DTL
I, for one, refuse to concede or yield to the belligerent demands of a man that helped lead us into an unholy war of questionable clarity or moral certitude by relinquishing my own sense of justice and principles of peace.
I, for one, refuse to concede or yield to the belligerent, unjust and unprincipled demands of a president that continues to put us in harm's way by pitting us against a large segment of the world's population with secret prisons, calls for unjust military tribunals and a lack of clarity about how to really safeguard our way of life.
I, for one, refuse to put any trust in a Congress that has repeatedly backed misguided policies in their own vain hopes of appeasing an angry king that has turned a respected country into an imperial overlord, making it despised by huge swaths of the world.
If appeasement be the game we now need to debate, then let's debate the real merits of current states of affairs and let's see whom is appeasing whom, and which side of the truth will prevail.
ap‧pease –verb (used with object), -peased, -peas‧ing.
1. to bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment; pacify; soothe: to appease an angry king.
2. to satisfy, allay, or relieve; assuage: The fruit appeased his hunger.
3. to yield or concede to the belligerent demands of (a nation, group, person, etc.) in a conciliatory effort, sometimes at the expense of justice or other principles.
Donald Rumsfeld, as primary belligerent, has confused the issue once again.
Take a look at this link http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/07/DDGK1KT87E1.DTL
I, for one, refuse to concede or yield to the belligerent demands of a man that helped lead us into an unholy war of questionable clarity or moral certitude by relinquishing my own sense of justice and principles of peace.
I, for one, refuse to concede or yield to the belligerent, unjust and unprincipled demands of a president that continues to put us in harm's way by pitting us against a large segment of the world's population with secret prisons, calls for unjust military tribunals and a lack of clarity about how to really safeguard our way of life.
I, for one, refuse to put any trust in a Congress that has repeatedly backed misguided policies in their own vain hopes of appeasing an angry king that has turned a respected country into an imperial overlord, making it despised by huge swaths of the world.
If appeasement be the game we now need to debate, then let's debate the real merits of current states of affairs and let's see whom is appeasing whom, and which side of the truth will prevail.
posted by Paul Salinger at 8:51 AM
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